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Drone Strikes: A Theoretical Analysis

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This report does not aim to question the morality of assassinations; rather, given that the decision to assassinate an individual has been made, it analyzes the ethical arguments concerning The United State’s use of a drone strike as a means of assassination rather than spending Special Forces. Recently, the US military has increased its use of airstrikes by unmanned aerial vehicles (UVAs) as a means of assassination. This pivot in foreign policy has popularized the ethical debate concerning the effectiveness of ‘drone strikes’ as a means of killing America’s enemies. The use of drone strikes provides the US with the safest, cheapest, and least politically destabilizing method of assassination, though, increased transparency concerning the
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This paper analyzes an article discussing the ethics and morality of drone operations by the U.S. government. The article “Is Obama’s Drone War Moral?” by Matt Peterson provides the argument and basis for this analysis. This paper will break down the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments written in the article. This article uses both deductive and inductive arguments as well as fallacies.

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Our Innocent Lives At Stake A drone strike can kill a person in one room of a house, also people in the room next door, to even across the street like a school. There has been cases where the drones have had civilians attacked while along the intended target. These were all unplanned deaths, all innocent deaths. I oppose the use of drones in warfare. From all the drone strikes killing innocent people or putting their lives at stake and ours, is a horrendous movement, that’s why in my opinion I think we shouldn’t have drones.

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He argues that the use of drones overseas poses no threat to U.S. forces and that the attacks produce fewer casualties than other alternative fighting methods that are currently used. Byman claims that the drone strikes are very effective at eliminating threats overseas and

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He cleverly refers and makes reference to our American service men and women when taking on the assumption that most readers feel the same way. Burris makes statements throughout his article such as, “Drones spare American soldiers” (Burris) and “Every time a drone takes out a terrorist leader….. that is a precious young American life saved, and that’s a good thing” (Burris). This thoughtful insight by the author could persuade a reader in an affirming way towards his claim on the use of drones. Perhaps Burris takes an assuming step in in the wrong direction when he takes on the assumption that his entire audience is in favor of drone use.

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In 2002, the CIA began to arm drones with missiles to shoot suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq (Source A). However, even though drones bring a new way of warfare into America, much of the world disapprove the use of drones (Source G). In reality, drones benefit the country by how they provide more of a defensive approach to wars. Drone strikes can actually decimate terrorists networks which makes the United States safer altogether and secondly drones are more precise which indicate that they can take down a target and keep the people around the target safer.

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